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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
It's precisely because of racism and its long, ugly history in our society that the word in question is likely to be received as more or less offensive depending on who says it.
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Absolutely! All the more reason for blacks to treat it as a racist word and to stop using it. How many white people go around calling each other cracker or honky? Very few that I know of. And what happens when a black person calls a white person one of those names? There's no NAAWP up in arms crying racism. Why? Because we don't make nearly as big deal of a deal out of it.